Audio Book Description:
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and invest- igator.As Maisie soon learns, AgnesLawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge ofmadness but to the doors ofthose who practice dark arts and commune with the spiritworld. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested as well asher regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who servedin France and who lost three brothers to the war--one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missingRalph Lawton.
